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Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives

Race Equality in Education

This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. Although there has been significant...

Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives

Although there has been significant progress in developing balanced institutional frameworks to identify and address barriers to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff and students, such...

Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study

Race Equality in Education

This event will provide an update on the report, and will be critiqued by a respondent. Delegates will also have the opportunity to ask questions throughout. Inequalities in the educational...

Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study

Inequalities in the educational achievement of minoritised students in higher education (HE) appear in a wide range of national contexts (Richardson, 2018), and are often attributed to structural...

Decolonising curriculum knowledge: A scholarly journey from the local, to national and international perspectives

I began decolonising curriculum knowledge 25 years ago. The tragic murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was the catalyst of my activism in education, research, teaching...

A ‘race and education’ film club: New reflexive possibilities

In England, as with so many settings around the globe, researchers have long-debated how concepts of racism interplay with education, whether at the systemic or classroom level (see for example...

Ethnic capital and the role of British Kashmiri parents in the education of their children

This blog is based on research, conducted in 2021, which explored the concept of ‘ethnic capital’ through interviews with seven British Kashmiri academics whose qualifications ranged between...

Radical imagination: Enacting anti-racist practice and decolonial praxis in initial teacher education in England

Decolonising the curriculum is a complex, although not elusive phenomenon in initial teacher education (ITE). It is, however, to be actively and persistently pursued in order to enable anti-racist...

The un-decolonisation of the HE curriculum in the UK: How representative are the current reading lists in education graduate programmes?

The Global South is inhabited by roughly 75 per cent of the world’s population; it is expected that this number will increase to almost 88 per cent by the year 2100 (Solarz & Wojtaszczyk, 2015)....

Race Equality in Education

BERA’s Race Equality Policy is a commitment to addressing racial inequities within the Association and the wider educational research community. In 2022 and 2023, BERA is presenting a series of...

Ethnicity and the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools across England

In this blog post, Mona Sakr and Shaddai Tembo recap key points from their recent BERA event on race and ethnicity in the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools in England. As part...

Educators learning through communities of philosophical enquiry

‘Community’ is suggestive of collectivism and plurality, while ‘enquiry’ evokes processes of exploration led by pressing questions or concerns. Combining these concepts and practices is at...